THE museum in Malvern is welcoming in visitors after being closed for more than two years.

The museum in Abbey Road closed its doors for the Covid lockdown in 2020 and is back welcoming in guests again.

Along with the re-opening, public lectures are beginning again in the museum and are now being held on Thursdays.

The environmental history of the Malverns area in the past 12,000 years is the subject of Malvern Museum’s next lecture.

Professor Richard Bryant will explain how the local landscape has evolved from its Ice Age legacy through to climatic change.

He will delve into the local development of the Severn Valley, the return and decline of the forests, the effects of human occupation and more, including geological, vegetation, and archaeological aspects.

The talk is at 2.30 on Thursday, April 28 at Christchurch Hall, Avenue Road and is free to Friends of Malvern Museum, £2 entry to visitors. Refreshments are also available.

The museum celebrated its 40th anniversary back in 2019 with a series of special events.

It was set up after the Malvern Gazette asked in 1978 why the town did not already have one.

The museum contains exhibits relation to all phases of the town’s history, including the founding of the Priory, the Victorian water cure and the arrival of the radar establishments during the Second World War.

For more information about the museum, go to malvernmuseum.co.uk/